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Initiation is like an introduction to your Soul.

It is entirely possible that you might not like your Soul when you meet it, or you may find the experience to be ineffable and overwhelming.

Where previously you have only known your temporal, human and finite experience, in Initiation you touch the Eternal, the transpersonal dimension, and drop for a moment into the realm of the Transcendent, the Infinite.

The term Initiation is used in esoteric literature in three ways.

In the first way, called gnosis or diksha, the seeker is introduced to the spiritual mystery and shown techniques to develop it. This is the sense we are discussing it in this article.

In the second way, which is the way we usually are talking about Initiation, it represents the expansion of the Soul’s spiritual evolutionary potentials to a whole new level, conferring wisdom, great love, new spiritual abilities, and profound insight. It is moving the Soul closer to the Divine, and that movement, that inner change is mirrored at every level of the mind, in every vehicle of consciousness.

In the third way, we speak of Initiation as a discrete stage or station on the spiritual journey. For example, at the Planetary Realm, we say an individual whose Soul has evolved to the Manasic Plane is undergoing the Third Initiation. He or she is taking the Third Initiation during each new expansion of the Soul’s evolutionary potentials on the Manasic Plane. The moment the Soul moves onto the next Plane, the Buddhic Plane, it is said to have taken the Fourth Initiation.

So, initiation refers to an introduction, a new beginning, but also the journey and the attainment.

This process of initiation is central to spiritual life. We cannot get around it.

It is a task that must be accomplished, a truth that must be known and realized for progress to take place.

Where previously you may have been content to dip your toes into the water at the seashore, becoming an initiate means that you now have a way to cross the sea. It is like being given a boat with an engine to propel you.

It is the most incredible, most beautiful journey that can be taken in this human life.

If this opportunity comes to you, then take it if you feel that you are ready. It is truly the greatest of blessings.

Initiation — the Key to Spiritual Transformation

When we consider the second type of Initiation, the unfolding of your Soul and each of its vehicles of consciousness, we note there are two ways this can occur.

In the first way, which is called self-initiation, we use a technique to unfold the Soul and its vehicles. In Mudrashram®, we give you a transformational mantra to unfold your spiritual potentials at the cutting edge of spirituality. Other methods that can unfold your spiritual potentials at certain levels of the Great Continuum include Kriya Yoga and Nada Yoga.

The second way is Initiate-driven transformation. This occurs when a Initiate or spiritual Master sends the Light to us, and actively unfolds our spiritual potentials.

This has been called Translation, Light Immersion, Salvation by Grace, Shaktipat, or Baraka in different spiritual traditions.

We include this “Grace-Bestowing” ministry in our Light Immersion sittings, which we call Light Sittings.

Between using their transformational mantra and participating in Light Sittings, those who study with Mudrashram® can dramatically speed up their spiritual evolution.

While normally it takes eleven or twelve years to move forward one nodal point upon the spiritual Path through natural karmic unfolding, those who have the transformational mantra key can move forward three to four nodal points in a single day.

Moreover, since we train individuals to work at their cutting edge of spirituality, there are no limits to the spiritual growth you can achieve with this method.

Using your transformational mantra, it is possible to journey through the Subtle, Planetary, Transplanetary, Cosmic, Supracosmic, and Transcendental bands of the Great Continuum of Consciousness.

For this reason, we say that your transformational mantra gives you the keys to unlimited spiritual growth.